The Pakistan army continues to tell its people that it alone could save them from “Hindu India.”

Abdullah also took the opportunity to defend his earlier statement that PoK belonged to Pakistan and that India should be content with Jammu and Kashmir, by saying that both the nations do not have the courage to take each others’ territories.

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“Not for the last 15 years but ever since I entered politics, I have never felt that these two sides can be united. Neither do we have the courage to take their territory, nor do they have the courage to take ours. We are also a nuclear power; they are also a nuclear power.”

Blaming the media for hyping up his statement, he said his views about Pakistan continuing to hold PoK and India keeping J&K could not be the only scenario and he would accept any decision which was acceptable to the majority of people in India, Pakistan and J&K.

Suggesting caution to India and Pakistan from the US, Abdullah claimed that the country was not a friend of the two neighbours and was only interested in selling its weapons to both of them.

Terming the Kashmir issue as a political one, he said that economic packages will not help to solve this problem.

“If it was only about money, then the country has already spent billions on this state, but the issue still lingers.”

He stressed that he was proud to be an Indian and an Indian Muslim.

He said that the need of the hour was to strengthen the unity amongst the different religions in the country.

Meanwhile, Sudheendra Kulkarni, a former ideologue of BJP, supported the views of Abdullah that India and Pakistan need to accept that the territories under their control can’t be snatched away. Instead, the two countries should provide autonomy to the people of Kashmir.